The Shifting Sands

The coastline north of Ericeira, plenty of peaks After our four days in Madrid, the next stop on our summer break was a week of surfing at Ericeira, a town just north of Lisbon.  Kate had come to Portugal for a yoga camp in the Algarve and we had become aware of Portugal through magazines such as Monocle which often had features on Porto and Lisbon.  A typical streetscape in Ericeira (Kate is not typical) This is in front of the well curated surf shop MagicQuiver Initially we were looking to go to Morocco to surf but the conditions there are reputed to be unreliable at this time of year.  We looked at Portugal as a destination and Ericeira emerged as the most reliable destination at this time of year.  Even better, it had recently been announced as a UNESCO World Heritage Surfing site. Even the deserted building in the town centre added a particular charm ...

I have lived in Mumbai for just over three years now and in that time the opportunity to practice Yoga Asana in a group setting has grown enormously.  Initially the only opportunity, I could find, to practice Yoga was in small group settings, either through my daughter's school, the American School of Bombay, or in the home, bringing a teacher in on a regular basis.  the Yahoo group, Bombay Expats, was a great source of information for recommending Yoga Teachers.  As a practitioner of twenty years of Yoga Asana Practice, a Yoga Teacher recommended by a new comer to Yoga, I found through trial and error, did not work for me. I know we are always in learning situations, but I did not want to pay top rupee to learn from someone I should be teaching.  I guess that is what led me and my ego to Yoga Teacher Training!  Like many expat 'wives' (be they male or female) we look to 'take' something away from India.  Please do not tear me apart limb from limb just y...